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Kaspersky Lab has published report that about 13 million cryptojacking crimes have been committed in 2018. This number is quite impressive, however, if we look at it from the annual statistics point of view, we can see that the amount of cases are up by 400% this year alone.

Cryptojacking is a term to describe malicious activity when a culprit generates cryptocurrency (transfer funds) without the owner’s knowledge using a compromised device. This kind of crypto crime is highly popular in the financial world.

The most common jacked cryptocurrency by cryptojackers is Monero (XMR). The virus or malware enters a user’s PC, usually it happens when the later watches online ads or solves captcha. Then the script creates chaos on a PC’s CPU power making the system run slowly.

Our editorship urges you to be careful in order not to fall into the hands of criminals. We want to remind you:

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As it has been reported by the Marketwatch, Erik Finman, a teenager who became a millionaire back in the times when Bitcoin cost 20 thousand dollars, gave a very negative outlook for BTC in the future.

“Bitcoin is dead, it’s too fragmented, there’s tons of infighting I just don’t think it will last. It may have a bull market or two left in it, but long-term, its dead,” said Finman.

As for Litecoin, here the teenager is sure that this coin “has been dead for a while”. He also mentioned those coins that, in his opinion, still have a chance at the market, such as Ethereum, ZCash and, surprisingly, Bitcoin Cash.

Although Eric is still very young and not that experienced, the fact that he owned 4 million dollars in BTC in 2011 make his predictions quite reasonable.

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The exchange rate of Ethereum has for the first time in the history risen higher than than of the ill-fated Bitcoin Cash. According to the CoinMarketCap the value of Ethereum is almost $86, whereas the cost of BCH dropped to around $82.

The price of Bitcoin Cash has been plummeting down since the infamous hard fork. After the coin split, its exchange rate dropped to around $200 and kept falling. Soon it left the double-digit price range. The hard fork, the hash wars and the overall downward trend of the crypto market has left a large negative impact on this cryptocurrency.

According to the online platform Coingecko, Bitcoin (BTC) added 0.8% over the past 24 hours. The price at the time of writing is $3266 per coin.

The rest of cryptocurrencies tend to fix in the green zone:Bitcoin Cash added 1.98% over the past 24 hours and costs $81 per coin;Ripple lost 0.03% and is $0.29 in value;EOS grew by 2.62%, and its price is $2.01;Litecoin increased by 6.03%, and its cost is $27;Cardano added 1.47%, and its rate is $0.029;Stellar grew by 0.10% and costs $0.097;IOTA dropped by 1.05%, and its cost is $0.24;Dash lost 1.32%, and its price is $64;Monero became more expensive by 1.21% and costs $41.

Over the past 24 hours, Ethereum added 0.49%. The coin rate is $87, according to Coin 360.

The total market capitalization of $104 billion. The share of Bitcoin is 54.8% of the total volume. In monetary terms, this is $57 billion.